02 October
9:30-10:30
Signing-in
The plenary session
10:30-14:00 Designing the satellite industry 2035
Discussion topics:
• New technological challenges: the construction of satellites and ground-based equipment
• Development of sovereign technologies. Test zone for operators and manufacturers at the Satellite Communications Center (SCC) “Bear Lakes”
• The Arctic: the sovereignty of communications. Development of satellite services in the Arctic zone
• Key trends in the global satellite communications industry. Efficient use of space resources
• Strategies for the development of satellite services. New markets and partnerships
• Integration of Russian satellite communications, remote sensing and navigation systems
• Infrastructure renovation. Implementing of Russian hardware and software: compliance and interchangeability
• The role of the government in the space race and the provision of digital services
• The space program and its impact on the communications industry
• D2D: is there a Russian solution or what can be offered instead
• GEO satellites and drones
• What can we offer international markets? From sovereign services to export opportunities
• Development of sovereign technologies. Test zone for operators and manufacturers at the Satellite Communications Center (SCC) “Bear Lakes”
• The Arctic: the sovereignty of communications. Development of satellite services in the Arctic zone
• Key trends in the global satellite communications industry. Efficient use of space resources
• Strategies for the development of satellite services. New markets and partnerships
• Integration of Russian satellite communications, remote sensing and navigation systems
• Infrastructure renovation. Implementing of Russian hardware and software: compliance and interchangeability
• The role of the government in the space race and the provision of digital services
• The space program and its impact on the communications industry
• D2D: is there a Russian solution or what can be offered instead
• GEO satellites and drones
• What can we offer international markets? From sovereign services to export opportunities
Yury Urlichich, Adviser to General Director of RSCC, Chairman of the Council of the Association of Satellite Communications Market Players
Participants:
- Alexey Volin, General Director of RSCC, Chairman of the Industrial Competence Center ‘Satellite Communications’
- Dmitry Bakanov, General Director of Roscosmos
- Yury Urlichich, Adviser to General Director of RSCC, Chairman of the Council of the Association of Satellite Communications Market Players
- Mikhail Gordin, Rector of Bauman Moscow State Technical University
- Evgeny Nesterov, General Director of RESHETNEV JSC
- Andrey Yakovlev, Chief Designer – Head of the Design Bureau of Gazprom AIT Facility LLC
- Andrey Manoylo, General Director of JSC ‘Gonets Satellite System’
- Alexey Raikevich, General Director of GLONASS JSC
- Oleg Ivanov, General Director of NRCT
- Pavel Cherenkov, General Director of Terra Tech JSC
- Alhamedi Al-Anezi, President & СЕО Arabsat
14:00-15:00
Lunch
The first session
15:00-16:30 Operator business in Russia
Discussion topics:
- Russian satellite communications equipment
- Operator business – what is to wait, growth or stagnation?
- Prospects for the development of the domestic direct broadcast satellite service market
- Market requirements for promising satellites
- International market overview
MODERATOR:
Alexey Vdovin, Director of Business Development - Head of Business Development Service of RSCC
Participants:
- Sergey Ratiev, General Director of RTKomm.RU JSC
- Alexander Anosov, General Director of AmtelCom JSC
- Andrey Kolesnik, General Director of Arctic-Telecom JSC
- Denis Filipishen, director of broadcasting and information technologies of Tricolor
- Andrey Kirillovich, Director of Strategy, Marketing and Business Development at Intersputnik IOSC
- Kirill Mahnovskiy, General Director of Orion Group
- Sergey Pekhterev, Shareholder of KA-Internet JSC
16:30-17:00
Coffee break
The second session
17:00-18:30 From the R&D to the end user solutions: adapting to a changing landscape
Discussion topics:
• Mobile small-sized VSAT terminals for operation via GEO satellites. A mobile station with a diameter of 30 cm
• Satellite terminals with thin and light metasurface antennas
• Domestic hubs and terminals
• New capabilities of the ground-based monitoring and measurement complex for access and control of small terminals
• Satellite terminals with thin and light metasurface antennas
• Domestic hubs and terminals
• New capabilities of the ground-based monitoring and measurement complex for access and control of small terminals
MODERATOR:
Evgeny Buydinov, Deputy Director General for Communications Systems Development and Operation of RSCC
Participants:
- Pavel Bakanov, General Director of STAR-T LLC
- Vladimir Bobkov, General Director of Radio Communication Technologies LLC
- Alexey Kosmynin, General Director of Matrix Wave LLC
- Vadim Sapelnikov, Head of the Orbital Frequency Resource Control, Measurement and Planning Service of RSCC
- Igor Zabolotny, General Director of Isatel LLC
- Oleg Varygin, General Director of PK DELTA LLC
- Andrey Shestakov, General Director of Telecom-Project - 5 LLC
A discussion round table with bloggers
17:00-18:30 Satellite communications: conversation without censorship
Discussion topics:
- Space Popularization;
- Attracting and retaining young professionals in the space industry;
- Public-private partnership. Prospects in Russia;
- New space startups: technologies, ideas, implementation;
- Global space: a look into the future
Participants:
- Alexey Volin, General Director of RSCC, Chairman of the Industrial Competence Center ‘Satellite Communications’
- Yury Urlichich, Adviser to General Director of RSCC, Chairman of the Council of the Association of Satellite Communications Market Players
- Mikhail Kotov, science journalist, cosmonautics popularizer, author of TASS News Agency and his own Telegram channel ‘Liftoff Contact’ («Контакт подъема»)
- Roman Belousov, science journalist, author of the Telegram channel ‘Space Chronicon’ («Космический Хроникон»)
- Sergey Apresov, journalist, popularizer of science, editor-in-chief of the website ‘Pro Kosmos’ («Pro Космос»)
- Nicholas Oxman, cosmonautics popularizer, representative of and Stratolink startup and Aeroplatform LLC, author of the Telegram channel ‘Cosmodiver’ («Космодайвер»)
- Ilya Ovchinnikov, space engineer, spacecraft specialist, director of Development in the company ‘Education of the Future’ («Образование будущего»), author of the Telegram channel ‘Kind Ovchinnikov’ («Добрый Овчинников»)
- Marat Hayrapetyan, space engineer, member of satellites’ development team, Mars simulation mission specialist, author of the project “Jura, we can do it!” («Юра, мы справимся!»), ambassador of the ‘Techprosvet’ («Техпросвет») project at Vk.com
- Anastasia Medvedeva, producer and journalist, ambassador and chief organizer of ‘Yuri’s Night’ festival, author of the Telegram channel of the same name about space business and marketing news
- Alisa Zaripova, popularizer of science, author of the ‘Alice in Wonder New Space’ Telegram channel and the ‘New Space’ project. Alisa also works in a space education field and develops a mission to Ceres
- Savva Naumov, editor, scripter, and translator for the Telegram channel ‘Karman Line’ («Линия Кармана»), author of the humorous space-themed TG-channel ‘SpaceMemes’
18:30-18:45
SATCOMRUS AWARDS 2025
19:00
Standing banquet
Demo-day
02 October
15:00-16:30 Demo day of the Industrial Competence Center (ICC) “Satellite communications”. The ICC work during the first half of 2025
Discussion topics:
− Conditional access system− Manufacturing the domestic Express-AMU4 satellite
− Hardware and software complex of signal analysis
− Domestic equipment for satellite communication networks
− How to start tests at the SCC “Bear Lakes” and what are the benefits
03 October
Business negotiations on an individual program